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Sale ed) Gills Dele Key Cones Chapter I The documentality of Mme Briet’s antelope Bernd Frohmann ‘This chaper proposes a concep of docinetality a a conribition to an cmeging ld of stay shout document what hey are and wha they do, tod abuts the processor cents of documentation how they fetion, nd how they happen” By resisting reactions of documents to vehicles ‘wansporting conscious, intentional substan of human speck fom eon o person, it eps materialize documentation I's developed hee, ‘ot throng fama kinds of documents, bu though Stzanne Bet ie fof an antslope a document ‘The chapter hus upon the authors previous work exploring how think ‘ngahoutdocumenttion a tear of anangement” ect atention doc sentry agency! The pana characters ofthe concep of docarentalty avepreseted ad the concepts tuted a Conepual nd ec space. The ante pe, ity and documentary agency ‘ret was iran a the Bilotique Nationale in ars from 1938 co 1984, and an imporane figure in documentation and information studies, enoened for lamin in 1951 that thing can be a dosent (re 206), Her famous example was the alone, She said t mst hei 3 20 where it ean ftom such ie tradoal docamcns because thee tins ope where ican easy Be presented ap evidence for knowlege claims. But her oanection bewoen documentation and evidence can be generalized to incladea wide ange of actual and possible nonevidentiar and nonscite rangement, sich atari crest, and imaginative ons in which things documentary powers are ened. The deeper point sbout Briers cle x that somthing beens 4 document by vie of sean ments with othe things no about» peivilged form of those arrangements, fick a thir evidentiary factions [ake horn Brit the ies that in com lex arrangements tings exer dacmentary agency, which capable of bing detected, understood, and engaged in many diferent wap, and by many diferent kinds of acts, both hamar, and noahuman. The prem isto show how a things documentary agente, power or force ~ which Fell inedecumentalty =x exered by vine of thon rangement By keep Go comet ninn she mue dlc conan he cage ef doensel at document. Iam interned in tess happening, haw Sonnehing gets writen og inthe widest ese arid. My questions ae, how docs ths “happening this even occur? How do wring, wae and documentation emerge onthe teractions between a thing =the antelope = ndother elements of it specific arrangement? “The concept af dcumentay meant wo conibut to king about doc ‘umetation nis es and compen. eas four npn etre is, document is finton tha exis varying der of iter in is ‘moles of opcation, Think, Fr example of the ey ofthe dscpinay dc rmeweary aparaties of apartheid South Afar ofthe German Democratic Republi Stas, where the colecen,ennizaton, and dexpherig of the trate of obsess ind caters of pens ese ino the capllares ‘of eveyay fea documentary nest Whose oder manifestations extend east as far hack asthe eeemcentarypysognom thers of kann Caper Lvaer te Gray 24 erento 2009), ba whose ang aceon te Valen Grocer, were “thoroghy medial 2007, 8). The decinen "ary appartines of ew repressve ime anton in ess ints, ore mer !se and indirect ways al att gree dances and es see Sond, documentlay ss hiverally contingent, permiting, sail and temporal comparisons ofthe breadth, and etre of a exer By varios leds ee ever es, ws, works of arama, garden rocks, nd fk The actuation ofthe documenaity of = paricular thing nes ‘cote and spaces arrangements beeween an other elemsnts 2 Specie mae of operation of documertalty ae therefore alan torial (for spect hater examples Chapter 6 of Pan 20, 20046), “Tied, documenaliy exhivs diferent levels of complet. To under stand is meds of operation one needs to follow complex aerangements Ietween heterogeneous elements Yo discover hows at hs ime ad pace, arangements with whic tednologis, person, groups, istitions, and conceptual elements a specific mode of docuneatality actualy fenton, with what intensity, and vo what effet Fill Tinend documenta co denote a property ofa specifi thing or phenomenon power or force This fot apes of documenta refers tos thing agency which sexed in arangnents with ate things, [propose these four aspects ~ fanconaliy, stony complex and agency ~ asthe principal characteris ofthe concept of documenta “Agency = perhap the lea nti ofthe concepts Fesares, ad the ‘oe most likely ro aac fetanc, because we are oe wsed to thinking ‘hour dociments as agent ee also Frohmann 2007, Following the path (of Brier antelope, we tae three selected ite along te wa 10 mot ‘ae the concep of documentary ae First site: primory and secondary qualities ‘or fie pause i at specie philosophical place tha hp us think about Adcamentlisy 363 propery of thing, Te hifarstion of he propre of a ‘hing primary and secondary qualities tae ne of Westen philoso ply begining with Derwcrtus through Descartes, Galileo and Newton, © "sft developmen by Locke (and to i explierejction by Beeley ‘nd Red) Primary qualnes belong to obj, wheres secondary guaies, tise from the effects of abet on consis uma sbjet. Te two kids Df qualities are incommensurate, The former are the mathematical, meas the, and grometnc properties of objets themselves. The ltr art sensory Property such ae colors drs, textures, and sounds, But oly primary Sunes expen the bjesive reality of tangy the etry qualities through Stick we thik we Know ther ae mercy els om ur sensor APPS, Imanfowed as subgectne, mental eepresenations “Tealating ths ean to decumetay tems, we se tat acoding toiewharisimporant snot the hig, buch mental feesetatons we Bn from it ad ten tans: to some trie med, That ean od sry ene to whch we hve lng ben accustomed Br Latour fling Aled North Wihicead channeled hy sbel Senger, chalets freon to nas con the fry of separation berwern representing subjects and te and ‘canines nature Lstour quotes Whitehead ~ "the ed glow of the sume Show be as much pr of matre 3 re the moka dace wats by twhichnen of sence would explain the phenomenon (Whiebed 1920, 2 25, quoted sp Latour 2004, 244) ~ and heads hs own example: “we ae ‘asked to consider ha the gh sigs oa i ou mind (or oe rain) nd notin the world ou there bens eating somes orp fhe Iso Primary quale” (Latour 200,38 te antelope as ch i propeis the nightingale song orth suse’ ed gh this fst pouse on ur pth inode opiomopis alles who can hip develop 9 cnc of do realty that desigtes documentary ageney ae proper of chins themes. Te dings dcumenality s' propery orate becase Tels he power or ateey of te thing creed i the varying intro ‘fy capaci prea, flor allow encourage, peri ae rener pole bloc, o ord the generation of marks tat ospions a Errangstens wither things Beet iseac the atelope athe ial, Primary document and on the cascade of dacument generac by humans tho std the caged antcope ae scconary on derived Bit 2006, 10-11) ‘an be read as frestadowing sch concept of documenta. Second ste: of birds ond bees ‘An implication of documenta’ being propery of thing ie thar doc: Imenaryapeney doer not require hamin mbes: Atoms iterating eth ‘ation eave nigatres, bt thesigatre, mak race, origin te ‘tonality, ingly and ent has neti to do wth haran tein. The tines Seerted by titra arial ~ by dogs, with sae, by oles, ith fees mak ther erty as ley for eh animals a8 No “Trespass mark a hana peat property. The plumage of Bie a hang coor of ses manifest the damental ofthese crests| specifi form ofthe expensive powers of hings to eve unique ses is noted ina news report om olfactory sures, which decibeseors ‘ofthe German patc tocol and archive human sets rm polcl ac ‘iss, a Chinese "cen bank of odors collected from eiinal suspects and ‘rime scenes, the South Afican polices overtures 4 UK eectonic none company (apparely there are many such share its der signature” of back people, UK reearch into eroling swat of tained ees lis scent deesion, andi the United Sse, noe ony bees, bt mths and cock roaches swell (Marks 2008). Unique olfactory expressions ofan indi ‘human body manifest the body's docamenality tm arangements wth the seent detection capacities of waned dogs, bes, moths, cockroaches, andthe ‘German poe. To say that documenlity doesnot require human ageny is nxt deny ‘har sometimes only am acute ting of human consumes cn eect the worlds documentary apeny. ln Shoah, Claade Lanmnane’s mone {al 9 fm onthe holst, Jan Pawan of Sobibor (este of + Polish [Naz extermination camp), vividly recall pec slnce. He reports that while the camp was consmted with slave labor, cere were many sounds commands, seams and shoes. But sory afer the fis arial of ‘cums who packed the over 40 ral reght cas there descended upon the town a remarlale slence, one he called van ideal slence” Ate 0 ‘describe i be eplied i was the sound of withing ove Beard nothing. This Silence i an exercise ofthe documentary agency ofan event he exter tation of more than 200,000 prisoners ofthe Sobibor camp. This “ideal eee” an inscription ofthat event I silence keno che ot, for "reample the serene lene kes experience in desolate fran oF te feomias} summit To lets de deeumestary power of tis snes won mind erases the acute tuning of his consousnes toa material ‘enomenon: the aul relton between what happened inthe carp and that remarkable sence. The documentaliy of extermination on the day Pons was attuned to dicecn it manifested inthe generation of 3 trace tht lence ~ which has 3 rea, casa connection to & speci ‘con: extermination. In the term of Chl Sanders Per’ sem, the silence san der of extermination. The ayaa lated ts ob ty convertion, the con by semblance, but ofthe index, Pace says “A Index sig which refs tothe Objet tat ic denotes by vee of bang relly affected by that Object” (Perce 1960, 2.248). In another tea, he expands if he sign were not elated t abject except bythe mind thinking of them separate ie would not full the function of si atl Supposing the, the relation ofthe sign toi object doesnot ina mental association, tere must bea det dul lation ofthe ig to tect independent ofthe mind using the sign the sign sigs tec slely by vitae of beng realy comected ith it OF thi are tesdl nam] gnnend ghgdadl ortgrane.| edhesheeiemiteies, 2 pointing finger beng the ype of the lass. The index asters noting iconly sys “There Tt ake bold of our eyes a it wee, ad forcibly iether oa pasclar objet ad hee srg [Pee 1885, 180-181)" Like the india elation between smoke afi, the india elation berween Pivonskiy “eal sence” and its casei independent of human ageny. rs the product ofthe exec of the damental ofan erent ‘occuring inthe Sobibirconcetrason camp. Te demstciizaton ofan ents decently by reducing the anetion of documents othe comm ‘cation of mental epeseations avoid eth and moral consequences of the crsue of the objec or event that oxcaaons attunement foie (Communication sb an accidental property of dacumetition. Thied ste: the orticulation of things “Laournstenc the agency figs helps think about damental propery ofa thing, which expressed in the suamenation o diminution ‘ft capacity to actin arrangements wth ote hing Ia th fourth chap ter of Pandon’s Hope, Latour seks a alestive to what heels the “od semen tat iforestion beeen ative ri sa tse nate is beer seement clades an anderanding of what the ents ofthe word 40° [Latour 199, 114}~that one in which hinge have apc, ‘One af his concepe ha deste work i arta a fs labora, ‘Louis Pasteur presced his Ici acd ferment the acon to ome in ‘oaact with oer ents. By entering io new ssocatons with hem the lactic acid ferment enereses ts agency. Latour wre, “th the atces ofthe locator, the lactic ack ferment becomes article lead of bing mut, unknown, undefined it becomes something tit bing made up of many more em 143) According os rltive olathe lace ‘ba ferment becomes more rl the mote atclabe i comes, He the advantage of he concepe of thing’ aculaton (his examples ae st fife practi, but there no reason vo ees the concepe to them) is {hat teres the indepondene ofthe thing” (140; my emphasis) This "dependence is capred in the Hea of documenality eterno pe, ‘ii actanzaton ofthe things agen Latour case of Paseur also selerences a more familar sense ofthe things dacumesain- Of the lca ferment, he obeve “There are, gute simply, more and more things to say abou it and what is sid by more and more people gains in eet, The fd of io chemisey Becomes, i every seme ofthe tery "more ace” and ‘do the chemists. Actual hank o Pasteur ements they come lino existence as biochemist, istead of having ta howe betwen ny and chemist ieeev8 “IMjiny more fowrall arcs” (43) are among the “many more things the lc acd made up of by coming in contact with sem after {he ocason ofthe laboratory act. The documenta of the lactic acid erent i inccasingy aaa a tenes ito asociaion wih more {Sul move acl wih wht scent iy and wih the development of ‘ew siete dsipline Bet noticed thar the antelope documenta Comins. in a nenork of awoxitions ofthe documentary Kind, Latour tte he same enon othe cae of Psu lactic aid erent On the documentality of things {now want obring he concept of documenta back to de antelope, There fe ove 9 sets of slop cach with characters se, hap, an ab fat, Each specs adap Behav easing ad seatepes ts ecole Inks whether festa, dese, Savannah, pp, oF ocky ean. Eck Shima expense umganes by bs dsincive anaons on thee adap ‘ons and though spite characters, uch a it degrees of aggreston ‘Srsubmision, dle statepey abd mating behave that ince atic “ing, plunge displays and vocal calleges Each corbiation of charac teri costo the indvidal animals "iat," which creates aff thoes for specie Kinds of interactions wth ether erature such a rates, ermpestory predator ad umans wit any of tress. fan anon: ‘Stover by tment soon afer dent, some of enais tecone foiled, [Raving an xernal edd in he rock Evenly the atlope’ remains see tga into macy, bu even the es chain of ces cotinocs nsfar a8 ‘oe molecules defect he path of ethers. The antelope document con- Sin the ene chain ofthe alone’ anigue aces, om fh death nd Feyond estes exes ts document, which a proper fut ant Tepe ts artangemens wh lone of ecole mck. Very Bie of ‘exes as anything odo wth hunans, acer none of eed have Sing todo wth ars, eventhough humane ze piven to nent and insaling eacecapnsing devices peciic mages of spec materi pro Cos for ther own documentary rezone? The weeds docu not ny overflows human itrentios bt makes hem pose in Deeus ad the genesis of Form,” Manel DeLanda presents an agi ment he males shewher, agains the "eocepion of mater as an inst ‘Pcepace for form that come fon the ouside,” replacing it bya concept Of zeal vitality tht scoostutes the noomenal machinery bead the ‘honomena that iy behind reality au t appears fo humans (DeLand {9am Delanda we that once we gndersand “ee Dlewian wold of tater and energee flows we fealie tat this “el viwaiy gover the genes of al el forms and that “he genesis off [i noe anscen ttl be immanent so ate sell” He points ois fami exarpes of Soup bubble and salt crysy thee repetive forms a spheres ard cubes [ernt impose! upon inert mater from without but ae actuation of Te ee erate of chele casrial and energetic flows. At the end of this chapter be makes a move tht connect bi flection o documenta. Ta kes any misunderstanding ha by real vralty Deleuze refer 0 sig tae vin alt, he remarks that noneteles, since "el vial Ev fers she genesis all eal forms, i cannot help bathe related to vital realities, ot ony those crested y computer simulations, bat lo by nove Ts, makes, painters and malas” I woul fol ha el virtual iy governs the genesis of documentary forms DeLanda goes ont ay tha the movement of thought should be fom a ich material weld pregnant Wich virwaloes” fo erature, a, xs dicouses, and metaphor, father than the othe way around, wen these are tated forms imposed upon inert mater ees aneope lads though about documentation toa ch ‘atrl worl pregnant with documentary vrwalioe My aim st sine te conep of documentlty in 3 conceal space ‘of agency, power, fore, aft, materi, potently, and res yea Documents ae thing in Lato sense, For him ating” ithe mate of ‘oncem” tha holds an assemblage together. thing energies or activates Sn asemblgss borrowing from Heep, e calls 2 “gathering” An ‘objec, by contra, “amply gathering that has faded” (Latour 2004, 246). Latours "hinge" hae some of the proper of those topological sie ‘lcs tha reat the for of DeLand soap bubbles and watery they organize cements ofan assemblage. Humans make documents and lattnethemselis to them, gather around thes, wage disputes over them, nl she as ales and dpi the to ect abd even makeup people, Incading orehes DeLana and Latour meiaion on mater op [got invetigavons of wide ange of teresing and remarkable manifest Hons of documentary energie and intensities, and pose the ask of cet ‘concepts toate them “The concep ofthe documenta of sings bas an ethical component Because itcanot be developed here [will ust gst toward it ist by re ‘rence to Flesegge® ag ofthe weld pictares He argues ha to dive ‘rents of he mnder age are the simaltaneos anstormaton ofthe world inv pictore and man so 3 representing subject (Heidegger 1977, 133), “Repesenting” he writs, "ap objecting hago forward and mates” (050; whac it means robe becomes fo be represonted. Subject gas 0 Power tothe degree that "the plantar imperialism of techroogicall ore "ned man” becomes the set instrument of rot choo le ‘ver the earth” (152. The rath of feng elf wil be given ove to man when he has oversre himself ak subject, rd hat means when e no longer ‘eects that which is ab object” (158) Bat inthe age ofthe world pcre, ‘ocumentation subordinated to and dominated by repeenation, chery Pespetating modem western philosophy privilege of representation over Feng snd the technologie domination ofthe word of ng: When repre seotation dominates he master sign becores Pie eo: in conemplaing punting, there s 2 moment when we lose he co eciouenan that loot the thing, the ditinsion of the seal und the copylxappers, an is for the moment a pare dream At that moment ‘we are contemplating an com (Pence 185,181) In the age ofthe work picture, Hills analysis of experience in web ovitonments becomes loa conn: “the hallucinatory dese © make Something pest not cal stand in for someting abut ha al © make inenpenetialy eqialee to what his gone mising remains cewhere, foram never be (iis 2008, 17; se alo his paper in ths volume). My sind selence i to Michel Senex small book The Notural ‘Contact (1995). Hie powrfl int chapter opens ith a imge fom ‘Goya: wo combatants eed wit cbs, ating each oer but knee-deep ‘nud They Fight, cio to the earth swallowing them up Stes finde fn this ghey image the eatacophe of forgetting “the world of ein. themselves" (Serre 1995, 2) Our wars our economies the frp of mons gathered ino what he lle “immens tesrome plate” (18), al ue re which he says cao the word” (ifr ime, lal, od likely carstophic wence upon “the world of things themselves” Tei time angen that we make contrac wth the woe a ata cone, because “[w[hac ws once local = thi vey shat swamp ~ is How global Planer Earth” (3, To dos, we need to tink beyond human sujet ‘nd Hallacinatory deste, and engage concer fr the agency atrial, ind serangement of thing I want to state the concept ofthe Jocumen tality of Sie Bret anche se, to ect some ateon to and epee for this now fragile weld of hing only Bouse reducing violence te has Boome mate of collective survival Notes 1 Teeny sesh ue ly mee in dant a Decime ‘eden “nal DOCAM conten Mein lag win, ‘Taman poup wh decent tr Contuns rams rscirh i a tino 2007 Fr aioe ee came se Aerie Ress “Th maven tad oa be anos, Doan Aa of mode inetd 00 006 For a eed spraach 9 Srment, ce (Cimel ne: Law ond mately 200 Fry we ‘ementson ean (3901, 3,30, SP, 27% 3008 309) ine etd ol a can ‘Tito the enh ee an ac of enelogann of towne the vie to an ‘tit ole dnumenn ear of he mse ord we bare supe "Sty a Seat tone we ret pen or arom bal tsar anc” vy 20012838 20. 2 Hig ough eal hy Flt agensan ch hse on red “mere Filip 3008, Dus aap word whch lt ranger xh To fgets shop pennant de mapa the rman ox color es ee ane ae es fo Foch cm, hi rn owt, alg sen Sutton a ce chain lane fons ofa ‘Sih seem dag dn she denn and emer no, arms ate reed eh ne ‘the “anmblg” x mie apport the cea le fared ‘Eechaersy We aod Wy Men at kn lame Sih 30 wasn ern ee et coc Pe [NDOCAN 06, wo dal ser papers ost on dinar doce ‘vn Kristene Usaha» fern te dace appa tile Dewowrae Rep ene hn interest ec fear tele of asic spon a pen ie pein. A BOCA ie ned DOCAA, Mant Kose spk abate acumen etiam rt si are cree atlonan itn (1977, 1985 Chapter ‘inal DeLand 20s stu expres al hs is iS eee rd Gt (987 Hel cons nr oct sealife co Fearon of index sin ni ara of viral ‘mate Chapt ie (209) and caper nh wlan ene stort pnt tae he tere cannot do seo i an oe 10 The een to making yp people vos Hacking (202) famous pape and ru ok (1995 808, References 5 Wh emi ly RE Do Neti Dag RE 00 The modern mention of information: Discse, bso, wad utr Carbonate: Earn Suter ons Univer ro ‘af RE 30 "A scnty of rt: Draven era cio” Ta What edamame Taman ele oy Re DL amined pele S958 Deku al a ees arm Reed Ang 28,208 fret pectin anaes ‘sland 200% The ploy of Gils eased Jay 8, 2007 atone youn hia SHA Referee aku ral FG 1987 aoa pln: Capea chop ‘nis Nou, Mlaeaplis IN ie of ines re sl oh ym The a ch et ‘mana 201, Dionne and dome Some bso or pgs ear Joma Eacanon fr abray an Inara Seo S31 8 sn 8S Bn nro Proms sd dion ha Dace ds Prema ath pony vedi 297 py, ann monn ey of xan I Sin Nc Win Lanter rh 279. er a ‘Mains Pour ony,scram eas ten 1 300! Dace ie cology, a pol Ach See ‘roman, 8.2009. Revisiting “What is a ‘document? Journal of Dracamentation CER eure atmo seg pa bee sl tre dane cn a cb RETR Saw nl et i san om pg or cole ig roe ammo atk 1995 Rewrite so Mali personaly ond cece of mem shin pa ener ETE EO mayor soe te rena re a mg mt cme er ss hr em eae ak ‘aie Kap Onde a off tne: Rita, thse. Doha, NC: Duke (AEBS ante torr trom mtn Lams 200, Wy nce aot of team? Frm mae of ft mater Toke age att on oR EE oot tem en eget eke pertain a, rig A 2008 What Jone eal know? The Guardian Wek 11-17 Are st rs 8 nde tenting nh ey ofa Te an amb ii uprenetdtems,g™= A Ns mn ra 2, erg Ot Samat a i en ie A Shon Mentor md tA Arbo Ml: University of Michigan res REDS Revert eas SSE tm Mca ad Penh TER basa cea he sin MIN Wind and Aiea shin, dh, 2007. A dacimen ene CE a tr eee ve BA tee CMe ee a RT Ge ks pth ticend AN. 1920. The ee Chapter 12 Subjects, networks, assemblages A materialist approach to the production of social space Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno Becerra, ‘and Daniel M. Sutko “The od nd umd orp Rete ak ply ad cory i ing oe ana The nen ve fr whch [What sth estoy of «human being? Where are the orders of thes «ty or alu o which a given person belongs? Ifa society i collective omposed of subjects who share socal poltel, and economic relations, ‘what ae te oundarcs round thowe relation What the rai of sc {es public spre, and where do sedges bump agin other spheres ‘of dcoure and goverance? At the outset ofthe tet Fe centr, ‘the comet of tansatonl migration and travel semper lary sm conomic intrdependecies a plncewide technical networks of enter {ainment and surveillance, the notion of scree, coherent soil space — "oct" a culue”~has bosoms deeply problema. The prec op snd ultimate consequences of loblzaton may remain undese. However, 28 noted by Ker Robins in the epigraph above it qe apparent tha the ontological assumptions, eontial amewerks, abd methodol tools inherited from moder sacl theories thur were pediated onthe ‘notion of scr are inadouat for concep he cuenta of fain. Modem socal theory took supe as national economics, gover ‘ment, communication infastracturs, and cultures became more cohesive td eed consequent mark ofthe nation i deeply inside on ie teenth and eweneth-century thous Ifthe nation has ben a imagined esmmunity nec only forthe masses (Anderson, 1991) but also for thes — {container of thought not en for popula bit Ba aso fr theory ~ how do we now reconepralize and invest the new, moe Phizomats, com tours of sci space? In the enter of moti ad ransocl connective oe im must et zcover the contours of sca ace withow pesing to know thet ‘vance ~ to fll the flows tae revel the coonections nd reltonsips: deca ated cabs echtan, A omudine dase cdhoaumaaen